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[17 Feb 2009 | No Comment | ]
A Pig’s Land of Poetry (Aesop Rock)

If you’ve ever wanted proof that life is art, just listen to the methodical beats of Aesop Rock. Born Ian Matthias Bavitz in Northport, New York, this musician has set off a new wave of the alternative hip-hop movement that first emerged in the late 1990s.

Little known to many of his followers, Aesop Rock’s stylistic renderings stem from his background in classical visual art. A graduate of Boston University, where he studied painting, Bavitz spent his formative years masterfully maneuvering through an inner-conflict between instinct and establishment. In a recent interview with …